Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study
Hatchet
a novel by Gary Paulsen
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only passenger on a small bush plane heading to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot dies of a heart attack in mid-air. Brian manages to crash-land the plane into a remote lake and drags himself ashore with nothing but the clothes he is wearing and a hatchet his mother gave him. Alone in the forest, he must learn — through hunger, failure, a porcupine, a moose, and a tornado — to make fire, find food, build shelter, and above all master his own fear and despair. Over fifty-four days he is transformed from a frightened city boy into someone patient, observant, and tough. Gary Paulsen’s Newbery Honor survival classic (1988) is one of the most gripping wilderness-survival stories ever written for young readers. These 8 Part workbooks cover the full novel, with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, Think Deeper reasoning, SAT & TOEFL-style practice, and writing, all built on real-world CLIL background.
Level 5Newbery Honor 1988Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based